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Dead Mom, 75, Tossed Into Trash Bin In Huntington Park Horror: Son Nabbed As `Person of Interest’

los angeles county sheriff's department carThe body of a 75-year-old woman was found Monday in a trash receptacle in Huntington Park hours after she was reported missing along with a car that was found Monday morning in Rosemead with her son, who was detained as a “person of interest,” sheriff’s officials said. Deputies from the Century Station went to the […]
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Death Stalks Hispanic Workers: They’re 11 Times More Likely To Die Of COVID-19

COVID-19 testing in AnaheimHispanic immigrants of working age — 20 to 54 years old — are over 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than U.S.-born men and women who are not Hispanic, according to a USC study released Monday. The study highlights California’s urgent need to bring vaccinations, treatments and other interventions to a demographic that […]
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Forget Sending Your Kid Back To LA Schools Without A COVID-19 Test – Every Week!

Some Los Angeles Unified schools will reopen for in-person classes next week, and families planning to send their kids back to the campus were reminded Monday that students must get a baseline COVID-19 test before returning and follow-up tests each week after. “As families help prepare their children for a return to school, we want […]
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La Quinta Man Charged in Alleged Stabbing of Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy

Nearly a dozen felony charges were filed Monday against a La Quinta man accused of stabbing a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy in the leg during a scuffle in Palm Desert. Christian Matthew Choi, 50, is charged with 10 felony counts, including two counts of attempted murder on a peace officer. He also faces charges of […]
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Man Killed in Solo Vehicle Crash on 5 Freeway Near Griffith Park

A man was killed Monday when a car crashed off the side of an offramp from the southbound Golden State (5) Freeway near Griffith Park. Haroutioun Shahbazian, 48, of Glendale was fatally injured in the crash, which was reported shortly after 2 a.m. at Colorado Street, according to the coroner’s office and the California Highway […]
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Do You Trust CDC? A Lot Of Folks Don’t

Public trust in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has fallen during the coronavirus pandemic, with the decline bringing overall population-level trust in the federal agency to the same level of trust long held by Black individuals about the agency, according to a study released Monday by the Santa Monica-based RAND Corp. Surveys […]
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Central Valley Men Charged in Alleged Drive-by BB Gun Shooting in Palm Springs

Felony assault charges were filed Monday against two Central Valley men accused of shooting a senior with a BB gun while he was sitting at a bus stop in Palm Springs. Christian Vitto-McVay, 19, of Modesto and Larry Bradford Williams, 26, of Stockton are accused in the drive-by attack reported about 6:50 p.m. last Tuesday […]
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LA County Lifts Quarantine Requirement For Fully Vaccinated Travelers

Following the lead of federal health officials, Los Angeles County Monday revised its COVID-19 travel advisory, lifting the mandate for fully vaccinated travelers to quarantine upon their return to the county. The county’s advisory continues to urge residents to avoid all non-essential travel, but those who do travel should continue to take precautions, such as […]
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Accused OC Killer’s Arraignment from Hospital Bed Delayed Again

Arraignment was rescheduled again Monday for a man accused of killing four people, including a 9-year-old boy, and critically wounding a fifth victim in a shooting rampage in an office complex in Orange last week due to the defendant’s medical condition. Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, 44, was charged Friday with multiple murder and attempted murder charges, […]
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Mars Helicopter Survives First Martian Night; Historic Flight Could Be Sunday

A small helicopter built at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena is now sitting on the surface of Mars, and it just survived its first freezing Martian night unsheltered by the Perseverance rover that carried it to the Red Planet, mission managers said Monday. And if all goes according to plan, the Ingenuity helicopter could make […]
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